RSVP Online

After reading and seeing many posts on invitations, I realized ours are a little different – we do not have RSVP cards to mail. Let me explain …

Back when we first got engaged, I decided to do a wedding website just as a whim. FI was super excited about it and wanted to promote it to every person he knew. The whim turned into a pretty good looking full on website. So fast forward to invites. While putting them together and explaining RSVP cards to him, he asked about using the site. It has a spot to RSVP if we wanted to go that route. Thinking about the postage savings, I agreed we should use it.

So our invites just have one insert that states RSVPs are to be done online at such and such website. To date, we have had 15 out of 74 responses in two weeks. At the time, I thought it was brilliant but now I’m having regret on seeing these beautiful RSVP cards and envelopes being posted …

We did online RSVP’s as well. it worked out great. I just think about how much money we saved doing it that way and what we have been able to use that extra money for and it reminds me why we did it in the first place. people don’t remember your RSVP card, they remember your wedding 😉

My FI had a blast putting together a Google form for our RSVPs that somehow links into the main spreadsheet we are using to organize guest info. It took him a while but it’s totally his thing, he was really proud of it 🙂

The online RSVPs made sense for us since we have a whole bunch of international guests and the return postage for RSVP cards was getting too complicated- and we were still able to put cute RSVP inserts in with our invite. Glad to hear it’s worked out well for others- we’ll see what our turnout is soon!

im doing it a little different… for those we know who use the internet we are doing rsvp online, but we do have some older adults that dont go online so we will be using traditional rsvps for them. but i love online rsvp- super easy and cheap!

We’re doing online RSVPs as well. To me it wasn’t worth the cost of postage and extra cards (yes, I am that cheap). I did the whole shebang the first time around and now I’m doing homemade invites, LOL.

@aprilbride26 – I used mywedding.com – they have templates that walk you through it. It’s really easy and simple.

@kestane – what a cool idea! didn’t know you could do that!

After thinking about it, I was pretty happy with the rest of the invites. Most of my friends love it. It is a little confusing for the older folks, but I’ve been putting the RSVPs in for them. Good to know that I’m not the only one that did this!! Thanks fellow bees